Stones Quotes - Page 11

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul

I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.

Palestine is only a stones throw away for a small Palestinian boy or girl.

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to be Voldemort's final Horcrux, Nagini.

Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people happier than they were before they met me, a sin that's left me with very little time to consider other extremely popular moral misdemeanors, like usury, intolerance, bearing false tales, extortion, racial bigotry, and the casting of that first stone.

Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as stones that can cause wounds or as caresses that becalm and that guide us, but the content of consciousness is intrinsic.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.

Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.

There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.

Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

New York is the great stone desert.

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

I don't think anything has been set in stone yet.

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones.

Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.